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Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (75 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the age of social media, nearly every day brings a new eruption of outrage. While people have always found something to be offended by, their ability to organize a groundswell of opposition to - and public censure of - their offender has never been more powerful. Today we're all one clumsy joke away from public ruin. Can We Take A Joke? offers a thought-provoking and wry exploration of outrage culture through the lens of stand-up comedy, with notables...
Series
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (49, 72 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
War game: A dramatization of the possible effects of nuclear warfare on Great Britain. Explores the physical damage effects, the psychological effects on the survivors, the societal logic for the existence of nuclear arms, and the attempts to understand how the balance of power keeps atomic weapons in check.
Culloden: In 1746, Scots fighting for Bonnie Prince Charlie lose to English forces in Scotland at the brutal battle of Culloden.
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert ([4] p. : ill.)
Description
This documentary takes the viewer inside Hurricane Katrina in a way never seen on screen. Incorporating home footage shot by Kimberly Rivers Roberts -- an aspiring rap artist trapped with her husband in the 9th ward -- directors/producers Tia Lessin and Carl Deal weave this insider's view of Katrina with a devastating protrait of the hurricane's aftermath. Trouble the Water takes audiences on a journey that is by turns heart-stopping, infuriating,...
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This documentary chronicles the transformation of The New York Times newsroom and the inner workings of the Media Desk, as the Internet redefines the media industry by surpassing print as the main source of news. At the heart of the film is the burning question on the minds of everyone who cares about a rigorous American press, Times lover or not: what will happen if the fast-moving future of media leaves behind the fact-based, original reporting...
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 738 min.) : sd., b&w with col. sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (xv, 173 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
In the years before World War I, virtually no issue was too controversial to bring to the screen. The first American movies were deeply engaged with society, coming from an era when movies and entertainment were intimately interwoven with public debate. As such, they were shown in commercial movie theaters but also in clubs, churches, schools, and everywhere screens could be hung outdoors--from the sides of city tenements to country barns. This archive...
Publisher
Icarus Films Home Video
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (423 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A fascinating exploration of the unintended and often dehumanizing consequences of the belief technological progress will benefit humanity; follows a solitary lifelong bureaucrat and her inner world; a documentary from the perspective of staff watching over a cemetery where many of Mexico's most notorious drug lords lie; the story of Almada's great-grandfather--a revolutionary general and one-time President of Mexico with a complicated legacy; a Mexican...
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2012], c2011
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 674 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Over a year has passed since Katrina, but residents are finding it harder than ever to rebuild their lives, much less hold on to their special cultural identity ... So why bother to stay? Because it's New Orleans. And New Orleans must go on."--Container.
91) Tony Manero
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Raúl Peralta, a middle-aged criminal in 1970's Chile, is obsessed with the idea of impersonating Tony Manero, John Travolta's character in Saturday Night Fever. Every Saturday evening, he unleashes his passion for the film's music by imitating his idol and leading a small group of dancers as they perform at a bar in the outskirts of the city. His dream of being recognized as a successful showbiz star is about to become a reality when a Tony Manero...
Publisher
Kino Lorber Edu
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A first kiss, a first dance. These are the rites of passage of American youth that hold the promise of magic, romance and initiation into adulthood. For kids from all walks of life, these first steps toward intimacy are at once exciting and terrifying. For some teenagers and young adults on the autism spectrum, the transition can be nothing less than paralyzing. In Columbus, Ohio, a group of young people with an array of developmental challenges prepares...
93) To die for
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1995
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a small town in New Hampshire, a media sensation erupts over a murder case against Suzanne Stone, in which she is accused of persuading teenagers to kill her husband, Larry Maretto. Obsessed with becoming a TV personality, she viewed her husband's desire for children as an impediment to her career.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2024].
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 55 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Malaria is one of humanity's oldest and most devastating plagues. In many parts of the world, it remains an ever-present scourge that sickens or kills millions of people each year. What if it could finally be defeated? Now, scientists may be on the verge of a breakthrough with a promising new vaccine.
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Internet's Own Boy depicts the life of American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and Internet activist Aaron Swartz. It features interviews with his family and friends as well as the internet luminaries who worked with him. The film tells his story up to his eventual suicide after a legal battle, and explores the questions of access to information and civil liberties that drove his work.
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
3 Blu-rays (525 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a dystopic future where a religion-based autocracy rules the country, women are second class citizens and after attempting to escape, June is sentenced to be a handmaid whose role is to bear children for childless government officials.
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